Owner: Practical Web Design, Development & Online Marketing URL:http://peter.pbwebdev.com.au Join Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:41:58 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: A blog about web design, development and online marketing. Covers areas from photoshop, email marketing, web application development and Joomla content management system. Site statistics:Click here
Migrating Joomla Websites to a New Server 2008-09-07 04:06:48 Migrating a Joomla
website from one server to another is a very easy process. It shouldn't take very long but there are various occasions where migration might cause a head ache or two.There are five important steps that you'll have to follow for your Joomla server migration.
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Pinging Web Services in Joomla 2008-09-01 21:44:07 A lot of people use Joomla
as a blog. Now compared to other blogging applications out there it is very powerful, but it is missing a few key features here and there. The key feature that I'd like to talk about is ping services for Joomla.
If you use Word Press, you'll know that you can set it up to ping these web services and let them know that there are new posts on your website as soon as your Read more:Pinging
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Random Password Generator 2008-09-01 03:44:06 A lot of people when generating a password usually use simple and obvious things such as their pet's name or just adding a number to the end of their name.
These sort of passwords really aren't that secure. The can easily be read from a screen and memorised or even guess by a hacker when they're trying to get in to your accounts.
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Tips on Marketing Your Website 2008-08-31 21:25:59 So, you just had a web site made but no one is calling and you're not making any sales. If you had in your mind that all you to do was make a web site to start getting all of those leads and sales then you might need a little bit of re-education. You know that old quote from the movie Field of Dreams, “If you build it and he will come,” well it’s not quite the case. In fact it very much is t Read more:Marketing
Internal Linking 2008-08-31 05:19:10 What is InternalLinking
Internal linking within a web site can mean a few things. Internal links play a crucial part in making sure that all the pages in a site are crawled and indexed by Google and providing lots of relevant content for the search engines and for your site visitors.
A Joomla plugin for MailBuild 2008-08-07 11:19:59
It looks like Van Eldijk Studio's been busy making a slew of useful extensions for Joomla
and low and behold, one of them is for MailBuild!
The extension makes it easy for anyone to add a subscribe form to your existing site without playing around with HTML. Add your MailBuild account details and you're good to go!
The new MailBuild editor is alive and kicking 2008-07-20 12:51:20
I'm very pleased to announce that the new MailBuild editor has just been pushed live and is now available to all of your clients. We covered the list of new features here last week, but here's a quick summary if you missed it:
Multiple repeater support - Include as many repeaters in your templates as you'd like.
Inline CSS - We automatically move all your CSS inline when sending the campaign for
Template Designs 2008-04-14 08:07:19 Nothing beats a uniquely designed website. A design that is visually appealing to the users as well as being user friendly in its interface.
So, when is it a good time to use a template? Should a template be used at all? This question comes up time and time again and I believe that there are certain situations where a template can help speed up the development of a website.
Why Use a Template
If y Read more:Designs
SEO Tip for Joomla 2008-04-11 23:11:32 Joomla is a fantastic content management system (CMS). It is one of the most widely used CMS systems in the world.
With all the good, does come some bad. Joomla in its default state isn't the most search engine friendly CMS. The URLs that it creates from the system have variables and values passed through them. This is all well and good for the system but means nothing for a regular browser and in Read more:Joomla
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Benefits of Search Engine Friendly URLs 2008-09-14 01:38:00 If you're using a content management system such as Joomla or any other database CMS you might have a problem with non search engine friendly URLs.
They cause two major problems. One being that fact that no one can remember the addresses for pages, e.g. "index.php?options=com_content?id=21?menu=1". You might be able to remember something like that but seriously, can you imagine trying to screen th Read more:Benefits
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Top 8 AJAX Addons for Joomla 2008-09-10 21:23:01 There are so many different plug-ins, modules and components for Joomla
it's not funny. A HUGE selection of them are on the main Joomla Extensions site but even more of them hide somewhere on the internet yet to be found and discovered. Here is just a selection of my favourite Joomla add-ons that make my sites stand out a little more.
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Designing to Golden Ratios 2008-09-08 20:36:58 If you're having troubles trying to determine your column sizes when you're designing a site, try putting together a site using the golden ratio.
The golden ratio is seen as having the most pleasing dimensions and is derived from observing nature.
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